The clinical pathologist is involved in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis in a variety of ways. Many of the traditional hemotologic and biochemical studies performed in study of patients suspected of having sarcoidosis are, however, of little diagnostic assistance. Hypercalcemia is now an infrequent manifesta­ tion of sarcoidosis and routine study of calcium metabolism in asymptomatic patients with ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the presence of foreign material in the granulomatous cutaneous lesions of patients with systemic sarcoidosis. DESIGN AND SETTING Observational study reevaluating histological specimens at a university referral hospital. PATIENTS Sixty-five patients diagnosed as having sarcoidosis who developed granulomatous cutaneous involvement. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES To detect the pr...

Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by non-caseating granulomas of unknown origin. Of the fewer than 6% of sarcoidosis cases that occur in subcutaneous tissue, most occur on the face or forearm, but rarely in the toe. A 33-year-old man was admitted to our institute with a 2-cm mass on his chin and a 0.5-cm mass on his right fourth toe. Based on preoperative ultrasonogra...

INTRODUCTION Pleural effusion induced by sarcoidosis is rare, and pleural sarcoidosis is often diagnosed by thoracoscopic surgery. The diagnosis of pleural sarcoidosis using thoracentesis may be less invasive when sarcoidosis is already diagnosed histologically in more than one organ specimen. Here we report the case of a 64-year-old woman with pleural sarcoidosis diagnosed on the basis of an i...

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease primarily characterized by pulmonary manifestations. Extrapulmonary involvement in sarcoidosis well documented and common, but isolated extrapulmonary rare at around 10% of cases the time diagnosis. Cutaneous presentations vary significantly, with erythema nodosum being most common. Since symptoms likely suggest systemic involvement, any way to...

Address for correspondence: Małgorzata M. Michalska-Jakubus, Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Paediatric Dermatology, Medical University of Lublin, 13 Radziwiłłowska St, 20-080 Lublin, Poland, phone: +48 693 549 654, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 4.02.2016, accepted: 10.08.2017. Occupational exposure as a presumable cause of subcutaneous sarcoidosis in a tannery worker – case r...

BACKGROUND Autoimmune hepatitis/primary biliary cirrhosis overlap syndrome, lymphangioleiomyomatosis/tuberous sclerosis complex (LAM-TSC), and sarcoidosis are three rare diseases. Here we present, to the best of our knowledge, the first description of a patient with the coexistence of these three diseases. CASE PRESENTATION A 47-year-old woman affected by LAM-TSC and primary biliary cirrosis/...

ocular involvement is seen in approximately 25% of patients with sarcoidosis. uveitis is the most common ocular manifestation, but sarcoidosis may involve any part of the eye. orbital manifestations of sarcoidosis are uncommon with few series in the literature. a 65-year-old woman presented with redness of the right eye and painless, unilateral eyelid swelling. orbital scanning revealed mass in...